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Leadership

Leadership

Transformational leadership enables leaders to induce trust on the part of the followers in ways that motivate them to develop respect and trust, and achieve organizational goals through inspiration that enable them to improve their performance. Nursing leaders that apply transformational leadership adhere to the four main tenets, which include intellectual stimulation, idealized influence, individualized consideration, and inspirational motivation (Boamah, et al., 2018). Transformational leadership style is appropriate for the obesity-prevention initiative since the behavioral qualities can enable nurses to motivate and empower the target population on how to actively participate in their physical wellbeing.

Transformational Leadership

Transformational leadership is a model that seeks to empower employees by application of actions and behaviors that motivate employees and other stakeholders. The leadership style utilizes ethical and moral approaches and behaviors in order to motivate stakeholders (Boamah, et al., 2018). Transformational leadership is concerned with empowering stakeholders to improve their talents, apply creativity when working, and increase their skills and competencies. The tenets of transformational leadership include idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration.

Nursing leaders ought to inspire their colleagues and subordinates to focus on organizational values, mission and vision that can create meaning in professional and personal processes. Leaders exercise idealized influence by illustrating meaning of the value of organizational goals and objectives by exemplary in which they become the role models that guide colleagues and subordinates on how to accomplish their obligations (Boamah, et al., 2018). Leaders help subordinates to engage in meaningful activities with the intention of cultivating their talents while meeting organizational goals and objectives.

Nursing practitioners exercise inspirational motivation by articulating organizational mission and vision to subordinates, peers, and clients through by articulating the vision through symbols, imagery, and verbally. Leaders are expected to inspire subordinates in ways that increase their confidence with their work since the leader makes all the goals and objectives clear, and improvises ways of simplifying the manner of expressing ideas and concepts.

Nurse leaders show concern for others by examining their talents, weaknesses, needs, and fears, and manipulate their talents to boost their skills according to their abilities. Nurses are expected to apply different perspectives to problem solving by attuning training and empowerment initiatives according to other people’s abilities (Wolfenden et al., 2020). Additionally, intellectual stimulation also entails empowering creative abilities in ways that can help employees.

Transformational leadership focuses on behaviors that improve the abilities of others according to their unique characteristics. For instance, nurses can encourage clients and colleagues in ways that increase their competencies based on their unique characteristics (Wolfenden et al., 2020). Such characteristics include cultural differences, anger management to increase their competitiveness.

Domain Scenario: Obesity-Prevention Initiative

It is indeed good for Melissa to be concerned about adiposity among school age children. Adiposity is associated with preventable illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and emotional and psychological disorders such as stress and depression due to social segregation. In order to effectively initiate the obesity-prevention program, it is crucial to express competencies of transformational leaders so as to sufficiently motivate all stakeholders in the program to appreciate the initiative, cooperate, and integrate the strategic activities in their lifestyles (Boamah et al., 2018). The scope of the obesity prevention and management program includes engagement in physical activities for about 11 hours in a week, and taking a healthy diet characterized by low fat and sugar content but high vegetable and whole grain contents. In as much as implementation of the program is easy, Melissa is faced with the challenge of convincing the target population to participate in the program, which requires application of intellectual stimulation. In this regard, I will work with Melissa and encourage her to utilize her competencies including professional knowledge and skills to create strategic ideas of engaging the target population constructively and respectfully so that they can enjoy the activities.

Apart from stimulating Melissa to apply creativity on obesity-reduction initiative, I will also provide role-modeling support by applying my professional and interpersonal skills to guide her throughout the initiatives. Although Melissa is a professional, it is crucial to apply best practices, evidence-based approaches, and creative ways to create appropriate strategies that can increase the quality of the program so as to make the program more beneficial to the target population (Roussy, Riley & Livingstone, 2020). In view of these reasons, I will apply my acquired evidence-based experiences that I have gathered in my professional experiences gathered in obesity-reduction programs to advise Melissa in ways of improving the program to make it effective.

Although the motive of the obesity-prevention and management program is activity-oriented, communication and coordination among relevant stakeholders is crucial in order for all scheduled activities to occur in the expected ways. As such, individualized consideration of all the stakeholders including Melissa and the target population is required. In this regard, I will apply emotional and cultural intelligence competencies by communicating, interacting, and behaving in socially responsible ways. In particular, I will be passionate about the initiative, and illustrate optimism regarding my belief that the target populations can attain and maintain healthy body mass index (BMI) (Gourevitch & Thorpe, 2019). I will communicate with all stakeholders in the program respectfully and in culturally appropriate ways. It is also crucial to assess individual characteristics of all stakeholders so as to customize the obesity-prevention and reduction initiative according to the needs and specific characteristics of the target population. My charismatic character would aid in the accomplishment of these objectives.

Advanced Practitioner Nurses (APN) is expected to motivate their colleagues and clients in ways that empower the latter to improve their competencies. Therefore, it is crucial form me to empower the Melissa and the target population to take the obesity-reduction initiatives seriously, and improve their health competencies. As such, I will guide the stakeholders on how to appropriately engage in the obesity-reduction and prevention activities by supporting them to act in creative ways that can enable them to take control of the activities. Nevertheless, I have inadequate motivational skills, which implies that I have to cultivate motivational skills before and during the initiative so as to improve on my motivational competencies.

Other AP Roles Applicable to the Scenario

Advanced practitioner nurses are expected to demonstrate cultural competencies by avoiding ethnic and racial biases. The obesity-management initiative is targeted at groups that consist of children from diverse cultural backgrounds. As such, nurses ought to be accommodative, understanding, and supportive in order to encourage the target population to appreciate the program (Boamah et al., 2018). Additionally, nurses need to play advocacy roles by pushing for legislation that can improve health outcomes such as lobbying for the construction of public recreation facilities that can increase the target population’ participation in physical activities (Boamah et al., 2018). Nurses are expected to be active participants through mobilization of resources, and engagement in active public health awareness campaigns in the region.

Conclusion

Transformational leadership the best leadership style to apply in the obesity-prevention and management initiative because the leadership behaviors associated with it have the potential to increase the motivation of the target population. The core tenets such as inspirational motivation encourages would encourage the target population to actively participate in the management of their health, and living a responsible life. Individualized consideration is also crucial for the program since the target population will be given the right interventions based on their unique characteristics, which prevents the likelihood of inappropriate interventions.

References

Boamah, S. A., Laschinger, H. K. S., Wong, C., & Clarke, S. (2018). Effect of transformational leadership on job satisfaction and patient safety outcomes. Nursing outlook, 66(2), 180- 189.

Gourevitch, M. N., & Thorpe, L. E. (2019). Advancing population health at academic medical centers: a case study and framework for an emerging field. Academic Medicine, 94(6), 813-829.

Roussy, V., Riley, T., & Livingstone, C. (2020). Together stronger: boundary work within an Australian systems-based prevention initiative. Health promotion international, 35(4), 671-681.

Wolfenden, L., Milat, A., Rissel, C., Mitchell, J., Hughes, C. I., & Wiggers, J. (2020). From demonstration project to changes in health systems for child obesity prevention: the legacy of ‘Good for Kids, Good for Life’. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 44(1), 3-4.